3) Anything that I have to do multiple times per week. If it's once a month I'll leave the process as something manual until it becomes more frequent. Something I learned while working at a "rocketship" / high growth startup is that shipping fast with a manual process >>>>> trying to automate too much in the beginning when you're not sure what usage patterns will be.
4) Multiple things:
- Feature requests from people who are not paying me money. If I get one of these, I send them a payment link and promise to build whatever it is fast, but do require them to sign up for a subscription first.
- Requests to do lifetime deals (these are at worst a scam, and at best a slimy marketing trick)
- Requests to jump on a call, unless it's someone wanting to pay me an "enterprise" amount of money. Calls aren't worth taking unless they lead to a $1K+ MRR deal being signed.
- I also sometimes ignore feature requests from brand new customers until I've heard at least 2 different people ask for the same thing. Sometimes new customers get really excited and ask for 5000 things at once, and there just isn't enough time in the day to get to all of them.
1) Everything minus taxes
2) Taxes. I have a CPA who files stuff for me.
3) Anything that I have to do multiple times per week. If it's once a month I'll leave the process as something manual until it becomes more frequent. Something I learned while working at a "rocketship" / high growth startup is that shipping fast with a manual process >>>>> trying to automate too much in the beginning when you're not sure what usage patterns will be.
4) Multiple things:
- Feature requests from people who are not paying me money. If I get one of these, I send them a payment link and promise to build whatever it is fast, but do require them to sign up for a subscription first.
- Requests to do lifetime deals (these are at worst a scam, and at best a slimy marketing trick)
- Requests to jump on a call, unless it's someone wanting to pay me an "enterprise" amount of money. Calls aren't worth taking unless they lead to a $1K+ MRR deal being signed.
- I also sometimes ignore feature requests from brand new customers until I've heard at least 2 different people ask for the same thing. Sometimes new customers get really excited and ask for 5000 things at once, and there just isn't enough time in the day to get to all of them.